[PATCH] kcsan: Fix 0-sized checks

From: Marco Elver
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 05:14:29 EST


Instrumentation of arbitrary memory-copy functions, such as user-copies,
may be called with size of 0, which could lead to false positives.

To avoid this, add a comparison in check_access() for size==0, which
will be optimized out for constant sized instrumentation
(__tsan_{read,write}N), and therefore not affect the common-case
fast-path.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kcsan/core.c | 7 +++++++
kernel/kcsan/test.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/core.c b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
index e3c7d8f34f2ff..82c2bef827d42 100644
--- a/kernel/kcsan/core.c
+++ b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
@@ -455,6 +455,13 @@ static __always_inline void check_access(const volatile void *ptr, size_t size,
atomic_long_t *watchpoint;
long encoded_watchpoint;

+ /*
+ * Do nothing for 0 sized check; this comparison will be optimized out
+ * for constant sized instrumentation (__tsan_{read,write}N).
+ */
+ if (unlikely(size == 0))
+ return;
+
/*
* Avoid user_access_save in fast-path: find_watchpoint is safe without
* user_access_save, as the address that ptr points to is only used to
diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/test.c b/kernel/kcsan/test.c
index cc6000239dc01..d26a052d33838 100644
--- a/kernel/kcsan/test.c
+++ b/kernel/kcsan/test.c
@@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ static bool test_matching_access(void)
return false;
if (WARN_ON(matching_access(9, 1, 10, 1)))
return false;
+
+ /*
+ * An access of size 0 could match another access, as demonstrated here.
+ * Rather than add more comparisons to 'matching_access()', which would
+ * end up in the fast-path for *all* checks, check_access() simply
+ * returns for all accesses of size 0.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON(!matching_access(8, 8, 12, 0)))
+ return false;
+
return true;
}

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